What
is True Wisdom?
I have read stories about intelligent men who have
devoted their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and glory for themselves.
At one point in my life, I thought they were great men who have transcended
the limits of human understanding and have shown the best of human abilities.
I was wrong. I had the chance to read the lives of several artists and
writers and was inspired by their accomplishment. Yet, I was discouraged
by their own plot, their own story, which they did not have the power
to recreate.
Then I asked, what was their wisdom for? If such wisdom
would push an artist to kill himself, a writer to become an hermit,
or a philosopher to despise his neighbors, then what was their wisdom
for? "For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the
more grief." (Ecclesiastes 1:18) If such wisdom would make man proud
and declare himself equal with God, then I don't want the wisdom of
the world. Many people have turned away from God and even denied His
existence, because their newfound theories claimed man came from animals.
That is foolish! The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They
are corrupt, and their ways are vile. (Psalm 53:1)
Human wisdom is foolish. "Where is the wise man? Where
is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made
foolish the wisdom of the world?" (I Corinthian 1:20) The wisdom of
the world can never replace the Word of God. "There is no wisdom, no
insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord." (Proverbs 21:30)
God will bring to light their folly. "The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word
of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?" (Jeremiah 8:9) "The
wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent
will vanish." (Isaiah 29:14)
Remember this: "For the foolishness of God is wiser
than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."
(I Corinthian 1:25) The wisdom of the world does not make us intelligent
before God. "We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs
up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not
yet know as he ought to know." (I Corinthians 8:1.
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